Patient satisfaction with the quality of nursing care.

The study was done in one private hospital in Turkey, so results may not apply to other hospitals, public hospitals, or other countries. It included only internal medicine, surgery, and obstetrics and gynaecology patients, so it says nothing about other units or patients. It was cross-sectional and based on patients' self-reported perceptions before discharge, not a test of nursing interventions or patient outcomes over time. Patients who had sudden discharge plans, were transferred to another hospital, or completed surveys incompletely were excluded. Some patient groups were very small, including 14 illiterate patients, 16 literate patients, 17 low-income patients, and 19 very-high-income patients, so comparisons in those groups are less stable. The authors note that test-retest reliability was not performed.

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Do not treat the high overall satisfaction score as evidence that every aspect of nursing care was excellent. Patients rated information about tests, treatments and what to expect lowest, and the study was done in one private Turkish hospital.